Strong G4648σκοπέω
to watch out
- Transliteration
- skopeō
- Pronunciation
- skop-eh'-o
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
ακοπέω, -ῶ
(σκοπός), [in LXX: Est.8:13, 2Ma.4:5 *;]
to look at, behold, watch, contemplate. Metaphorical, to look to, consider: with accusative of thing(s), 2Co.4:13, Php.2:4; with accusative of person(s), Rom.16:17, Php.3:17; before μή, Luk.11:35; σεαυτόν, before μή (see M, Pr., 192), Gal.6:1 (cf. ἐπι-, κατα-σκοπέω).†
SYN.: βλέπω, θεωρέω, ὁράω (AS)
(σκοπός), [in LXX: Est.8:13, 2Ma.4:5 *;]
to look at, behold, watch, contemplate. Metaphorical, to look to, consider: with accusative of thing(s), 2Co.4:13, Php.2:4; with accusative of person(s), Rom.16:17, Php.3:17; before μή, Luk.11:35; σεαυτόν, before μή (see M, Pr., 192), Gal.6:1 (cf. ἐπι-, κατα-σκοπέω).†
SYN.: βλέπω, θεωρέω, ὁράω (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4648 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- look2
- mark2
- consider1
- heed1
- that1
First verses
- Luke 11:35Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
- Romans 16:17Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
- 2 Corinthians 4:18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- Galatians 6:1Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
- Philippians 2:4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
- Philippians 3:17Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
Occurrences by book
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Detailed Greek dictionary
σκοπ-έω,
used by early writers only in present and imperfect active and middle (see. below 11), the other tenses being supplied by σκέπτομαι (which see):—but in later writers we find future σκοπήσω, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (Anonymus “Prog.” in Rhetores Graeci 1.615 W., 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 3.10 (_falsa lectio_), (ἐπι-) 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 103.8, (κατα-) 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 5.4)]: aorist ἐσκόπησα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 1 (προ-), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus “Fragmenta” 54 (assuming variant) (περι-), 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 12.28, etc.: and of)]middle, aorist ἐσκοπησάμην (περι-) [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.32:)]perfect ἐσκόπημαι (προαν-) [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 17.5.6: (compare σκέπτομαι))]:—behold, contemplate (rather of particulars than of universals, of which θεωρέω is more commonly used, but οἱ τὸν ἥλιον ἐκλείποντα θεωροῦντες καὶ σκοπούμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 99d), ἄστρον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.5; πλοῦν μὴ 'ξ ἀπόπτου μᾶλλον ἢ 'γγύθεν σκοπεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 467, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 490; τὰ πόρρω [prev. author] “Rh.” 482; τὰ ἔμπροσθεν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.14(17))]; examine, inspect, καταθεῖναί τι.. σκοπεῖν τῷ βουλομένῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12(5).480 (Athenian law, 5th c.BC))]; σ. παραγραφάς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PLips.” 38 ii 2 (4th c.AD): _absolutely_, ἄλλοσε σ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1474)]; σκοπεῖτε look out, watch, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 232, etc.)]: followed by a clause, σ. ὅπου.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 16; σ. ποῦ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.1, etc.)]: followed by a preposition, σ. εἰς.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 812.6, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 305b.)]
2 metaphorically, look to or into, consider, examine, τὰ ἑωυτοῦ σ. look to one's own affairs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.8; τὸ σεαυτοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 232d; τὸ ὑμέτερον 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.8; καιρόν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.23; τὸ συμφέρον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 342b {σκοπή}; τὸ πρὸς ποσί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 130)]; τοὺς νόμους πρὸς τοὺς τῇδε with reference to the laws here, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 24a; τι πρὸς ἐμαυτόν [prev. author] “Euthphr.” 9c: _absolutely_, σκοπῶν εὕρισκον ἴασιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 68, compare “Ph.” 282)]: followed by an accusative and interrogative clause, or μή.., σ. τὴν τελευτὴν κῇ ἀποβήσεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 506, “OT” 407)]: followed by an interrogative clause alone, σ. πόθεν χρὴ ἄρξασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.8; σ. εἰ.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 41, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 862a (_middle_))]; ὅπως.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.26)]: sometimes with genitive person as well as accusative or clause, σκόπει δὴ τόδε αὐτῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 182a; πρῶτον αὐτῶν ἐσκόπει πότερα.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.12)]: followed by a preposition, ἐξ ὧν ἀγγέλλουσι σκοποῦντες λογιεῖσθε τὰ εἰκότα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.36, compare 1.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.13; πρὸς τὸ ἄρχειν σκοπῶν λογίζομαι [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.6.8; σ. τὰ λοιπὰ πρὸς ὑμᾶς αὐτούς 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.31; ἀνομολογούμενοι πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348b; τόδε περὶ αὐτοῦ [prev. work] 351b, etc.)]; τὴν ὀρθολογίαν περί τι [Refs ([prev. author] “Sph.” 239b: with)] adverb, absolutely, ὀρθῶς σ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 155; καιρίως [prev. author] “Rh.” 339; ἄμεινον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 219a.)]
3 look out for, παῦλαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.7.32; τι ἀγαθόν [prev. author] “Hier.” 9.10; νεώσοικον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 96; ἐσκόπει γυναῖκά μοι 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 2.18, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Epistulae” 2.11; σ. ὄνομα κάλλιον αὐτῇ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.991f.)]
II middle, used like active 1.1 (perhaps implying a more deliberate consideration), with accusative, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 68, “Hel.” 1537; τένοντ᾽ ἐς ὀρθὸν ὄμμασι σκοπουμένη [prev. author] “Med.” 1166.)]
II.2 =[Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.2, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 964; σ. τύχας βροτῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 262: followed by _relative_, σ. τίνι τρόπῳ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 176b, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.48: περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 353a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 1.10: _absolutely_, ἔνεστι τοῖσιν εὖ σκοπουμένοις ταρβεῖν.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 296.)]
II.3 =[Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.3, ὅτανπερ ἀδικεῖν ἐπιχειρῶσιν, ἅμα καὶ τὴν ἀπολογίαν σκοποῦνται 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 21.17.)]
III rarely in passive, σκοπῶν καὶ σκοπούμενος ὑπ᾽ ἄλλων considering and being considered, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 772d)]; ὁ λόγος.. αἰσχρὸς τοῖς σκοπουμένοις is disgraceful in the very matter considered, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.54 (assuming variant, τοῖς σ. secl. Dobree).)]
used by early writers only in present and imperfect active and middle (see. below 11), the other tenses being supplied by σκέπτομαι (which see):—but in later writers we find future σκοπήσω, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (Anonymus “Prog.” in Rhetores Graeci 1.615 W., 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 3.10 (_falsa lectio_), (ἐπι-) 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 103.8, (κατα-) 3rd c.AD: Heliodorus Scriptor Eroticus 5.4)]: aorist ἐσκόπησα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 1 (προ-), 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus “Fragmenta” 54 (assuming variant) (περι-), 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 12.28, etc.: and of)]middle, aorist ἐσκοπησάμην (περι-) [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 1.32:)]perfect ἐσκόπημαι (προαν-) [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 17.5.6: (compare σκέπτομαι))]:—behold, contemplate (rather of particulars than of universals, of which θεωρέω is more commonly used, but οἱ τὸν ἥλιον ἐκλείποντα θεωροῦντες καὶ σκοπούμενοι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 99d), ἄστρον 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.5; πλοῦν μὴ 'ξ ἀπόπτου μᾶλλον ἢ 'γγύθεν σκοπεῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 467, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 490; τὰ πόρρω [prev. author] “Rh.” 482; τὰ ἔμπροσθεν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.14(17))]; examine, inspect, καταθεῖναί τι.. σκοπεῖν τῷ βουλομένῳ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12(5).480 (Athenian law, 5th c.BC))]; σ. παραγραφάς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“PLips.” 38 ii 2 (4th c.AD): _absolutely_, ἄλλοσε σ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1474)]; σκοπεῖτε look out, watch, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 232, etc.)]: followed by a clause, σ. ὅπου.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 16; σ. ποῦ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.2.1, etc.)]: followed by a preposition, σ. εἰς.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 812.6, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 305b.)]
2 metaphorically, look to or into, consider, examine, τὰ ἑωυτοῦ σ. look to one's own affairs, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.8; τὸ σεαυτοῦ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 232d; τὸ ὑμέτερον 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.8; καιρόν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.23; τὸ συμφέρον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 342b {σκοπή}; τὸ πρὸς ποσί 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 130)]; τοὺς νόμους πρὸς τοὺς τῇδε with reference to the laws here, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 24a; τι πρὸς ἐμαυτόν [prev. author] “Euthphr.” 9c: _absolutely_, σκοπῶν εὕρισκον ἴασιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 68, compare “Ph.” 282)]: followed by an accusative and interrogative clause, or μή.., σ. τὴν τελευτὴν κῇ ἀποβήσεται [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.32, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 506, “OT” 407)]: followed by an interrogative clause alone, σ. πόθεν χρὴ ἄρξασθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.8; σ. εἰ.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 41, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 862a (_middle_))]; ὅπως.. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.26)]: sometimes with genitive person as well as accusative or clause, σκόπει δὴ τόδε αὐτῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 182a; πρῶτον αὐτῶν ἐσκόπει πότερα.. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.1.12)]: followed by a preposition, ἐξ ὧν ἀγγέλλουσι σκοποῦντες λογιεῖσθε τὰ εἰκότα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.36, compare 1.1, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.13; πρὸς τὸ ἄρχειν σκοπῶν λογίζομαι [prev. author] “Cyr.” 1.6.8; σ. τὰ λοιπὰ πρὸς ὑμᾶς αὐτούς 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.31; ἀνομολογούμενοι πρὸς ἀλλήλους 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 348b; τόδε περὶ αὐτοῦ [prev. work] 351b, etc.)]; τὴν ὀρθολογίαν περί τι [Refs ([prev. author] “Sph.” 239b: with)] adverb, absolutely, ὀρθῶς σ[Refs 5th c.BC+ (. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 155; καιρίως [prev. author] “Rh.” 339; ἄμεινον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 219a.)]
3 look out for, παῦλαν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.7.32; τι ἀγαθόν [prev. author] “Hier.” 9.10; νεώσοικον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 96; ἐσκόπει γυναῖκά μοι 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 2.18, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Epistulae” 2.11; σ. ὄνομα κάλλιον αὐτῇ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.991f.)]
II middle, used like active 1.1 (perhaps implying a more deliberate consideration), with accusative, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 68, “Hel.” 1537; τένοντ᾽ ἐς ὀρθὸν ὄμμασι σκοπουμένη [prev. author] “Med.” 1166.)]
II.2 =[Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.2, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 964; σ. τύχας βροτῶν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 262: followed by _relative_, σ. τίνι τρόπῳ.. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 176b, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.48: περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 353a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 1.10: _absolutely_, ἔνεστι τοῖσιν εὖ σκοπουμένοις ταρβεῖν.. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 296.)]
II.3 =[Refs 5th c.BC+ (1.3, ὅτανπερ ἀδικεῖν ἐπιχειρῶσιν, ἅμα καὶ τὴν ἀπολογίαν σκοποῦνται 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 21.17.)]
III rarely in passive, σκοπῶν καὶ σκοπούμενος ὑπ᾽ ἄλλων considering and being considered, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 772d)]; ὁ λόγος.. αἰσχρὸς τοῖς σκοπουμένοις is disgraceful in the very matter considered, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.54 (assuming variant, τοῖς σ. secl. Dobree).)]